Mogadishu: Al-Qaida fears rise
An Islamic militia with alleged al-Qaida links has seized Somalia’s capital Mogadishu after weeks of bloody fighting with US-backed secular warlords, raising fears that the nation could fall under the sway of Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organisation.
After 15 years of anarchy in the Horn of Africa nation, the Islamic militia’s advance unified the city for the first time in more than a decade and posed a direct challenge to a fledgling UN-backed Somali government.
